How long did it take your tang to find feeding clip?

[scubasteve06]

I just put in a feeding clip with green nori on it in my Scopas Tangs favorite spot of the tank and he is totally ignoring that spot now. My question is how long did it take your tang or other reef fish to find the nori and start to graze on it?

 

[prickles]

For my slow witted tangs, a minimum of 3 days. I have a pbt that wouldn't touch the stuff for the first couple of years.

 

[buy_baff]

Hmm every tang I have ever had goes straight for it.

 

[Indymann99]

I use a feeding clip that I suspend from the tank center brace. This puts the Nori in the middle of the tank. I find the tangs like it better than the clip on the side of the glass.

my 0.02

 

[Neoz]

My tangs destroyed the Food on clip. Took them all of about 2 mintues to investigate what this "new" item was in the tank. Once they did watchout. My Blond Naso just rips it off and pieces go everywere for the others. They wait for Naso to shred it up for them..

 

[am3gross]

my tangs and other fish eat out of my hand so as soon as i put it in the tank they knew what it was... wen t straight for it!

 

[trwells]

My pbt will not eat red or green sheet algae. He will, however, eat red gracilaria off of the algae clip.

 

[treylane]

I've had (small) scopas and carib blue tangs that wouldn't go neeeearrr nori, no matter what I tried, they thought it was the boogeyman or something.

 

[lReef_lKeeper]

mine found it in SECONDS

 

[jenjen]

My Yellow & Chocolate tangs, and also my Foxface were all eating off the clip within minutes of the first time I put it in. My Kole tang took around 4 months to give it a try, but is now always first in line.

 

[scubasteve06]

Well after making the thread, I noticed some tang sized bit marks in the little piece I put in there. I then took a cpl very small pieces and let them go in the tank and he gobbled them up. So I left it in there overnight, but he hasn't touched it since. Do I just have a shy Scopas or what? Another thing he has not grazed on the rocks once since I have had him the past 3 days now. Whats up? He eats mysis, emerald entree, and chopped market squid like a champ btw.

 

[b2d2t]

Right Away

 

[scubasteve06]

I use a feeding clip that I suspend from the tank center brace. This puts the Nori in the middle of the tank. I find the tangs like it better than the clip on the side of the glass.

my 0.02

Did you do this because they were not touching the clip when it was on the glass?

 

[MrGone]

Honestly it just depends, I've had some yellows show no interest what so ever and others go nuts as soon as it hit the water. My purples and sailfin are all over it as soon as it is in the tank.

I wondered if it was because it was next to the glass but it's really not the case. I use a magfloat to hold strips of nori and my tangs make a bee line straight for it. Occasionally they'll 'cut' a piece off and one or two of them will chase it around the tank, just depends where their attention is.

Same behavior with my large angels.

 

[Indymann99]

Did you do this because they were not touching the clip when it was on the glass?

No I made the holder because I have to get a step ladder to reach into the tank and place/remove the suction cup clip .... with the holder I can place and retrieve without the ladder and my hands stay dry. yeah I am LAZY..

http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn10/Indymann99/Tank12132009.jpg

 

[TripleT]

He's afraid of it, or doesn't care for it.

Keep trying, and try different kinds.

I'd also try folding it once, clip it, and cut it into thin strips, one or two inches long.

 

[lilalove]

I would rubberband the nori to a piece of rock for the first couple of weeks. Once my naso figured out it was good stuff, I started putting it on the clip. He rips it off the clip before I've even suction cupped it to the glass now. He's greedy.